On 1/21/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As for non-disruptive fixes to xorg manual pages, we can try to get
advantage from the fact that all xorg manual pages are either pure ASCII, or
valid UTF-8. The proposal is to cook up a sed that fixes all problems at
once and apply it to all files with the name man/*.man (and explain that it
has no effect on pages that need no fixes). The sed is:
sed -i -e "s/\xc3\xb8/\\\\[\/o]/" \
-e "s/\xc3\xa4/\\\\[:a]/" \
-e "s/\xc3\x9c/\\\\[:U]/" man/*.man
The first line is for Kristian Høgsberg, the second is for Michel Dänzer,
and the third is for Guido GÜnther.
Randy, I forgot that I never wrapped these up. It turns out that the
only packages that ship UTF-8 man pages (for now) are in the drivers.
I tested the above fix from Alexander and it works fine. Here's a
patch I cooked up. What do you think?
--
Dan
Index: BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml (revision 6592)
+++ BOOK/x/installing/x7driver.xml (working copy)
@@ -85,13 +85,19 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Xorg Drivers</title>
- <para>The <application>xf86-input-evdev</application> package installs
- a man page with character encoding not displayable using the
+ <para>The <application>xf86-input-evdev</application>,
+ <application>xf86-video-ati</application>,
+ <application>xf86-video-fbdev</application>,
+ <application>xf86-video-glint</application>, and
+ <application>xf86-video-newport</application> packages install
+ man pages with character encoding not displayable using the
<application>Man-db</application> package. Issue the following command
- before building the package to change the offending encoding to
+ before building these packages to change the offending encoding to
characters <command>man</command> can properly display.</para>
-<screen><userinput>sed -i "s/\xc3\xb8/\\\\[\/o]/" man/evdev.man</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>sed -i -e "s/\xc3\xb8/\\\\[\/o]/" \
+ -e "s/\xc3\xa4/\\\\[:a]/" \
+ -e "s/\xc3\x9c/\\\\[:U]/" man/*.man</userinput></screen>
<warning><para>It is very important not to build display drivers that
cannot be used with your hardware. For instance, do not build Sun drivers
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